Late-night hosts discuss Mark Meadows’s texts with GOP lawmakers about overturning the election, Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and the Respect for Marriage Act
“If Marshall Law doesn’t work, we’ll mobilize the TJ Maxxinistas!” he joked of Norman’s misspelling. “Thank God this coup wasn’t planned by people who could solve the Wordle.”
The texts “go a long way toward explaining why these low-lifes have been so quiet about all this”, he added. “It wasn’t just Trump. He had dozens of enablers, and a lot of them are still in Congress. We had people who tried to overthrow the government in the government right now, and I continue to be blown away by how dumb they are. Even Scooby-Doo villains know not to write it down.”, which enshrines respect for same-sex marriage into federal law.
Colbert referred to a dramatic increase in support for marriage equality in the past 20 years, even among Republicans, which has risen from 19% in 2004 to 43%. “So progress, but still slightly less than the number of Republicans who believe JFK Jr is going to rise from the dead to create an even better pillow,” he joked.
The host also touched on the texts sent between Meadows and 34 Republican lawmakers about overturning the election. “That is unbelievable – 34 people wanted to talk to Mark Meadows,” he laughed. “These members of Congress communicating with Meadows were – and it’s not my place to editorialize – stupid, evil traitors who were trying to do crimes against democracy, for which they should be punished with decades of jail time.
“Speaking of criminals,” he added: Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, who was arrested on Monday in the Bahamas on several fraud charges following FTX’s stunning collapse. “What has this world come to, where you can’t trust the guy selling imaginary computer coins whose name is almost exactly Bankman-Fraud,” Colbert mused.
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